Live TV - Multi Screen Feature

[blade005 185]

With College Football and NFL seasons starting up in the States, a multi-screen option for Live TV would be a nice addition to the Emby feature set.

 

I am thinking of what the WatchESPN app offers thru their Web Browser access. The ability to open a multi-screen window that breaks into four (4) screens that allows you to select streams (Live or Replay) for each and then go full screen. Audio is from whichever of the four screens you have as active.

 

I can accomplish the same right now with the HDHomeRun Quick View TV app. I open multiple instances of the Windows app and then snap them to each corner on my 110" projector screen. Equivalent of four (4) 55" screens. Would be nice if this were a remote friendly option from within Emby Theater and the WebUI clients.

 

I have only seen it in Web Browsers at the moment and not any of the Win10 UWP apps (FS GO, NBCSn, WatchESPN). But, Fox Sports Go just released a multi-screen solution for their Apple TV app. 

 

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/26/fox-sports-go-hits-apple-tv-allows-viewing-of-four-games-at-once/

[Luke 42077]

It's a great idea, yes.

[BillOatman 596]

Just got a feature request topic closed for essentially this same ask,  Guess I won't hold my breath

[ebr 16169]

Just got a feature request topic closed for essentially this same ask,  Guess I won't hold my breath

 

Hi.  It was closed because it was a duplicate of this one.  We need to keep requests to a single topic or we have no hope of being able to track interest.

 

Thanks.

[BillOatman 596]

Hi.  It was closed because it was a duplicate of this one.  We need to keep requests to a single topic or we have no hope of being able to track interest.

 

Thanks.

Yup got that and makes perfect sense.  But this request was made in 2016

[TheGru 143]

Was there ever any traction on this?

[BillOatman 596]

42 minutes ago, gruhin said:

Was there ever any traction on this?

No

[Bottles51 74]

Maybe even the choice to have your live tv or movie on and music playing at the same time.

[ctyokley 1]

I would love to see this too.. but not just limited to sports (yes i want sports too... ), but also news. Or any other type of multiviews we can think of... That best fits the users needs. IE .. Dynamic multiviews.. 

[ptmuldoon 0]

I know this is an old post I'm resurrecting, but a quick góogle search took me to it, and I would love to see this as well.

[nweishar 14]

Resurrection of the dead post. Happening here

[Kcircuit 6]

If tivimate can do it i'm sure Emby can, bump.

[BillOatman 596]

3 hours ago, Kcircuit said:

If tivimate can do it i'm sure Emby can, bump.

I just use TiviMate to do it.

[Kcircuit 6]

On 06/01/2025 at 01:45, BillOatman said:

I just use TiviMate to do it.

Do you stream from emby server to Tivimate ?
I'm trying to figure out if this is possible or not for my live tv channels listed in Emby.

[BillOatman 596]

On 2/6/2025 at 3:29 AM, Kcircuit said:

Do you stream from emby server to Tivimate ?
I'm trying to figure out if this is possible or not for my live tv channels listed in Emby.

No.  I have Emby LiveTV setup for my remote kids to watch a few streams since they are setup to use it already for recordings.  For my TV viewing I have TiviMate go to my IPTV provider directly (m3u and xmltv files). TiviMate provides a much richer experience than Emby for Live TV, whereas Emby shines at playing movie and tv show recordings IMO.

Edited February 7, 2025 by BillOatman

[zgilliam 3]

Would really like a multiview for live tv!

[Jator 10]

On 2/6/2025 at 3:29 AM, Kcircuit said:

Do you stream from emby server to Tivimate ?
I'm trying to figure out if this is possible or not for my live tv channels listed in Emby.

I stream from Channels DVR to both TiviMate (for multi-view sports) and Emby (for all other purposes).  Unfortunately there is no single perfect solution.  Channels is the best back-end server, Emby has a much more friendly user interface, and TiviMate is the best by a mile for multi-view solutions.

[tmm1 8]

Channels DVR is experimenting with Multiview

[ulanov 16]

An app from an independent developer, called Multview, is now doing this for live antenna television channels on Android and Apple boxes. It works with HDHomeRun tuners for 2-4 screens (can toggle among them for full screen too).  On the Apple player the app will even incorporate Plex streaming channels (if you have that); that is coming shortly to Android players.  In the best world, it would be nice to see this within the Emby environment - even perhaps showing multiple Emby screens not just Live TV. 

Android    Apple

[denz 501]

Emby is really falling behind. Emby can’t even tune channels fast the chances of seeing this feature is likely 0.

[JackBowman 35]

Multiview rocks! Bonus feature in that it does not hang all the time. My Saturdays and Sundays are much happier now! THanks for the heads up!

[BillOatman 596]

Tivimate has multiview as well as picture-in-picture.  I use multiview a lot for sports, PiP I've never used.

[bandit8623 213]

this feature would be great!  hopefully in tvnext!

[jonzey231 35]

After recently switching to Emby from Plex + Tivimate, this would be an amazing feature!